Huff Lake
In 2000, a group of volunteers from the Selkirk-Priest Basin Association, the Native Plant Society and the U.S. Forest Service took up hammer, shovel and saw to help preserve and promote the Huff Lake Peat Fen. Twenty individuals worked for two days to clear brush and install an information kiosk and viewing stand. In 2001, the group built a walkway to access the lake without trampling the foliage.
A fen is defined as peatland that receives nutrients from water that has percolated through mineral soil and bedrock, or run off from uplands through surface water such as creeks. A fen's unique water and nutrient characteristics give rise to distinctive flora and high concentrations of rare species.
Huff Lake Fen lies in a glacial kettle. The peatland adjacent to the open water consists of a narrow floating mat around much of the lake, and anchored mats on the outer edge of the basin.
Please use extreme care when visiting this site in order to avoid harming the unique ecology of the area. You will not need to bushwack or otherwise disturb any plants to locate this cache. Four rare species of plants reported in a 1973 study were apparently absent in a 1992 study, so let's be sure to do our part to help preserve this special area.
The cache container is a drab olive ammo box stenciled with "geocache" in yellow on multiple sides.